Infopop Pooped out?

Paul, Mark, et al--

I don't mean to pile on, but I have received the same error message over and over--literally about half the times I try to visit. It does seem to be a problem.

Cheers,

Bob

PS--Arthur--T1's are ancient history--they need something like an OC-3 !

Yes, I am experiencing the same. Something has been very wrong for the past week. When I chatted with Petrik on the phone the other day, he said he couldn't get in at all, though it may be worse in his case, having to deal with the addtional problems of the can-and-string telephone system in Kentucky.

BTW--I now know there are probably some good looking girls in Kentucky, having met one just last week. Hell, according to the Catch-Blackman empirical system of human perception, I could probably conclude that they're all pretty.

Vuk.

Just think of it Vuk. If those Kentucky girls sounded all nasty to you, you could straighten them right up by putting them on a properly tuned Mana. You'd hear nothing but sweetness.

Of course, then we'd all have to figure out why.

Arthur Bye

INFOPOP carried out some work yesterday which caused some minor problems.They are still working on it. Keep cool.

[This message was edited by Paul Stephenson on TUESDAY 26 September 2000 at 20:34.]

Paul,

it's been bad for at least a week.

cheers, Martin

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Edit:- it's still bad tonight! Several very long 'pregnant' pauses. Several 'the forums are unavailable', which should obviously read "we're busy, try again later". I was discussing an e-commerce system with the developer today and he was telling me how he'd arranged for a "sorry the system is out while we perform maintenance" message whenever it was too busy.

[This message was edited by Martin Payne on TUESDAY 26 September 2000 at 20:01.]

And its still bad tonight!!!!

What is going on?

Regards P.-short attention span and cannot wait a couple of bloody minutes -errr

The frequent unavailability of the forum, sometimes for lengthy periods, is very frustrating.

Even more frustrating is the occasional disappearance of posts. I've had at least one of mine disappear, and one or two other people seem to have experienced the same thing.

This is getting beyond a joke.

Ross

Add my name to the list of those who have had postings vanish.

A while ago, Paul said that they were talking to Infopop every day. Has this talking achieved something that not obvious here? I think it's fair to say that we've been rather patient for the past month or so yet none of the major problems have been solved. A lot of regulars are no longer regulars and the forum is turning into a pale shadow of what it used to be. So, what's the plan?

BTW--the Royd/Exposure/Dynavector forums all use a variant of this software that ACCURATELY displays lightbulbs for threads witn new messages since last visit. It just doesn't seem to work at all here.

Vuk.

I struggle enough to find time (and sometimes wit) to post my meagre ramblings. It is a mega piss off then that this forum is less reliable than weather forecasts, and even more so that it deletes my contributions.

What's going on and why isn't there a better mousetrap yet? If this isn't an opportunity for a net-savvy IT consultant to make a buck, I don't know what is. Who knows, Naim might even trade with you in kind. Damn shame I know nothing about bulletin boards et al.

James

"I think it's fair to say that we've been rather patient for the past month"

I know, I know ,We need your interesting posts Vuk, please accept my apologies. I will Kick some ass as you Americans say, I think....
Read my recent post and the several in "improvements" and you will be up do date.

Paul.

I am NOT an American and if I were, I would immediately renounce citizenship of a country so evil.

Vuk.

"a country so evil."
Cannot agree on that one, seems we have so much in common!

"a country so evil"

Are you going to blame us for "Krell" forever or what?

dave

deep in dixie

I'm having big problems with infopop now. Tried to post 2 messages and each one has had a "we have an error processing your message" notice. So, I have persistently tried to re-post but to no avail.

Also when I try to read messages it may say that the service is temporarily down and please try again in 2 minutes.

Maybe the server is trying to censor my contributions!!

I'm sorry but I've been very patient, but a bug that is stopping me from posting and have my say is *too much*.

Andrew

Andrew Randle
2B || !2B;
4 ^ = ?;

Paul S,
I really can't believe you're putting up with this crap. I sent busniness development at infopop an e-mail saying I wouldn't buy a years service at a nickel after seeing Naims treatment.

Conrad Renken

Vuk quote:

quote:

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I am NOT an American and if I were, I would immediately renounce citizenship of a country so evil.

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Be nice Vuk or we'll send Ross Perot up there and buy your country. What'll you do then?

Arthur Bye

Arthur said: "Be nice Vuk or we'll send Ross Perot up there and buy your country. What'll you do then?"

Remember to shave?

Andrew

Andrew Randle
2B || !2B;
4 ^ = ?;

In the interests of providing debugging information to InfoPop I'm reporting further conference outages.

It has locked me out at around 3:00AM-3:30AM UK time both yesterday (Fri AM) & today (Sat AM).

Martin

This afternoon we are upgrading the kernel of the Operating System which
requires a full restart of the servers. We expect downtime to be about 15
minutes beginning at approximately 2 PM PST.

The forums will remain readable from the cache but posting and reply will
not be available for your community .

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. The purpose of the
update is to improve stability and prepare for the new Walkabout /6

lATEST UPDATE FROM INFOPOP

Paul (?),

If I read that correctly that's about 6:00AM British Summer Time, and thus should be in place now.

I've just had several more errors. Please ignore this message if I've simply miscalculated the time conversions.

cheers, Martin